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The Olsten Family S Foundation at a glance

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The Olsten Family S Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$69k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Public Benefit$214kHealth$113kReligion$69kPhilanthropy$65kEducation$32kHuman Services$25kInternational$16kArts & Culture$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$4,717
Median grant
3
States reached
$988k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION$25,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NY$15,000
BOCA RIO FOUNDATION$10,000
SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER$5,000
WOODBURY JEWISH CENTER$4,717
THE FRICK COLLECTION$3,500
FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION$2,500
PARK AVENUE ARMORY$1,500
SUNRISE DAY CAMP PEARL RIVER$1,000
ARMENIAN HEART ASSOCIATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 23% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MJS SURGICAL RELIEF FUND: $5k → 6%SEE STATEMENT C ATTACHED: $131k → 7%FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%RIO FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%BOCA RIO FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%THE BLANCHET HOUSE: $3k → 12%ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $25k → 7%SUNRISE DAY CAMP PEARL RIVER: $1k → 6%SEE STATEMENATTACHED: $123k → 7%FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%HELPING ISRAEL FUND: $250 → 11%AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $25k → 7%ED FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%SEE STATEMENATTACHED: $91k → 7%SILVER ART PROJECTS: $1k → 17%WOODBURY JEWISH CENTER: $6k → 6%SEE STATEMENT C ATTACHED: $83k → 7%UJA FEDERATION OF NY: $15k → 17%WOODBURY JEWISH CENTER: $5k → 6%SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER: $5k → 7%UJA FEDERATION OF NY: $15k → 17%WOODBURY JEWISH CENTER: $3k → 6%SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER: $3k → 7%UJA FEDERATION OF NY: $10k → 17%SAVE VENICE: $2k → 17%SAVE VENICE: $1k → 17%THE FRICK COLLECTION: $4k → 17%THE FRICK COLLECTION: $2k → 17%THE FRICK COLLECTION: $550 → 17%PARK AVENUE ARMORY: $3k → 17%PARK AVENUE ARMORY: $2k → 17%PARK AVENUE ARMORY: $2k → 17%CROHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%CROHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%CROHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$449k · 12 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$449k
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

58%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalPhilanthropyAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +5%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +19%
  • BR
    BOCA RIO FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • AM
    ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOC OF AMER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • AM
    AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +14%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
2
Institute of Fine Arts Foundation

Supports the nyu institute of fine arts, a division of the nyu graduate school of arts and science; which is devoted to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archeology and the conservation of works of art.

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3
Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land

The franciscan foundation for the holy land was established to safeguard human rights and the continued presence of the christian minority in the holy land. the foundation provides christians in the holy land with humanitarian support.

International
4
The Sergio Franchi Music Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
Berggruen Institute
Education
6
University of Judaism Foundation
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7
The Goldstein Family Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Bader Simon Foundation
Arts & Culture
9
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
10
Zichron Boruch Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc

The american friends of beit issie shapiro (afobis) is a national not for profit fundraising organization with regional offices in new york city, north miami beach, fl and los angeles, ca. afobis is dedicated to supporting beit issie…

Human Services
12
The Weil Foundation
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Ed Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEE STATEMENATTACHED: $214,232 · OtherSEE STATEMENATTACHEDARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOC OF AMER INC: $25,000 · OtherARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOC OF AMER INCAMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAWOODBURY JEWISH CENTER: $19,003 · OtherWOODBURY JEWISH CENTER+13 more: $44,000 · Other+13 moreCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS F…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWIS…BOCA RIO FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyBOCA RIO FOU…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25,000 · EducationFAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesMJS SURGICAL RELIEF FUND INC: $15,000 · InternationalSAVE VENICE INC: $2,650 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,000 · InternationalTHE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · AnimalsBOBBI AND THE STRAYS INC: $1,000 · Animals
Other$327,235Health$100,000Philanthropy$65,000Education$25,000Human Services$25,000International$18,650Animals$8,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMJS SURGICAL RELIEF FUND INC: $15,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetBOCA RIO FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $5,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE VENICE INC: $2,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER ART PROJECTS INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOBBI AND THE STRAYS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelping Israel Fund: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Olsten Family S Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Olsten Family S Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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